🆕 Forum Update Log (Dec. 2018)

This is the log of changes made to the forums in December 2018.

Here is a link to the previous update log:

• Forum Update Log (Nov. 2018)

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Added badges to new patrons

Updated goal graphics

Sunday, December 2, 2018

Restarted server a few times

Attempted to debug search problems

Filed bug about slow/crashing search

Turned off search

Manually removed all the the unnecessary temporary import data from the database

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

More debugging and bug filing and followups

Deleted old search records

Re-indexed for search excluding the TripleA games

: Re-enabled search

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Renamed the Axis & Allies 2nd Edition category to Axis & Allies Classic

Debugged invalid session issues

Restored missing avatars

Reset profile images for profiles with missing avatar files (also had no avatars on old forums)

Moved new upload files to attached volume storage (forgot to do this after migration)

Thursday, December 6, 2019

Changed the colors of nearly all the categories to a new color scheme.

Set the badges for all of the 2017 Patrons (meaning if they were a 2017 patron and were showing only one badge I manually changed it to show them all, unless I knew they didn’t want any).

Sent chat messages about the Support Drive to 2017 Patrons who have not subscribed this year.

Friday, December 7, 2018

Added sponsor badges

A little more debugging on a few pesky bugs.

I keep forgetting to update the log. Some of the little things might get dropped off the list. I won’t update the log if all I do is add some badges or send a bunch of chat messages.

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Designed new patron ribbons for 2018

Installed the Trophy plugin for the ribbons and medals

Monday, December 10, 2018

Filed a github issue for NodeBB to implement widgets to “hide from” a group (so we can hide ads for patrons)

Friday, December 14, 2018

Upgraded server to 2GB/2CPU

Enabled clustering (2 servers are running, 1 for each CPU)

Re-enabled automatic restarts for crashes

This one was quite a bit of late night work but needed to be done since we were getting hammered by Google crawlers and indexers.

Updated to the latest version of NodeBB

Continued the conversation regasrding the random log out problem.